What JIBBING Means
JIBBING is a form of JIB, which means:
- verb: refuse to comply
- verb: shift from one side of the ship to the other“The sail jibbed wildly”
- noun: any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
JIBBING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 19 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 I1 B3 B3 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 69 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In JIBBING
16 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (1)
4 letter words (2)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (3)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.